Hardy-Poincare' inequalities with boundary singularities

Abstract

Let $\O$ be a bounded domain in $\R^N$ with $0\in\de\O$ and $N\ge 2$. In this paper we study the Hardy-Poincar\'e inequality for maps in $H^1_0(\Omega)$. In particular we give sufficient and some necessary conditions so that the best constant is achieved.